printed layouts list to screen different than their DB order

BarakGarty — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 18:09:21 GMT

I am running the following script, just printing each layout in the project and its elements (total of 3 layouts). The printout (code below) order is Layout 2, then 3 then 1. In the DB the Layouts listed 1>2>3 like I'll except it to be.

Why is it printing not in the order it is listed? How can I set it to print like these objects are maintained in the DB? the printout this code currently issues is listed below:

Project layouts and their elements list:
Layout2
Legend
North Arrow
Scale Bar
Map Frame
Layout3
Map Frame 2
Map Frame 1
Map Frame
Layout1
Map Frame
Finished printing all project layouts and their elements

print("Project layouts and their elements list:") for l in aprx.listLayouts(): print (l.name) for el in l.listElements(): print (" " + el.name) print("Finished printing all project layouts and their elements\n")

Thanks in advance.

Re: printed layouts list to screen different than their DB order

Anonymous User — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 23:56:20 GMT

I could be wrong, but I think the 'display' order can be different than the created order and I suspect that these were created in the order that it is printing in. The TOC's/ panes are basically JSON files containing the object info and listLayouts is probably ordering the items by created order. You could do a sort in the code to force them to be sequential.

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